Sporting Terms

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• communication
• curiosity
• initiative
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 1 English

Students can:

• recognise the vocabulary of learning area topics (AC9E1LA09)
• create and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations on personal and learnt topics, which include an opening, middle and concluding statement; some topic-specific vocabulary and appropriate gesture, volume and pace (AC9E1LY07).

Year 2 English

Students can:

• create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations for familiar audiences and purposes, using text structure appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace (AC9E2LY07)
• experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic (AC9E2LA09).

Relevant parts of Year 1 English achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create short spoken texts, including recounts of stories. They share ideas and retell or adapt familiar stories, recount or report on events or experiences and express opinions using a small number of details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. Students use topic-specific vocabulary. 

Relevant parts of Year 2 English achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken texts including stories. They share ideas, topic knowledge and appreciation of texts when they recount, inform or express an opinion, including details from learnt topics of interest or texts. They organise and link ideas, and use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and features of voice. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

• plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure (EN1-CWT-01)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - direct class brainstorming, collate a list of vocabulary and scaffold the student writing task.

UN SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

• Target 16. a: strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime.

• Kit bag containing 5-6 items of sporting equipment relating to sports on the list of Commonwealth Games sports (eg a badminton racket and shuttlecock, a table tennis paddle, a cricket bat, hockey stick, whistle, swimming goggles)
• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Whiteboard
• Sporting Terms Visual Explainer
• Student Worksheet (1 per group)

These resources have been created with the support of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, via Commonwealth Games Australia.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Team are set to take on the athletes of he world at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from next year, and together the more than 250 athletes in green and gold aim to be the top nation at the Games in terms of gold and overall medals won, the number of medallists, and the number of sports winning medals.

You can cheer on Australia’s best across the screens of 7 and 7Plus from 23 July 2026.

Use Discussion Circles in the Primary Classroom - Primary

Quick summary: This course will help you facilitate class discussion circles where students are more actively involved and can safely explore their personal, social and cultural views.